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Known for her striking, brightly colored canvases, typically painted with a winsome flourish that mimics a child’s sense of logic and proportion, Cemetery Head, takes on more morose themes than she has tackled in the past. Yet the funereal atmosphere contained in these new works can’t undermine the essential joy and playfulness which animates her painting at its core. The carnivalesque, almost hieroglyphic character of her work remains unchanged. What she introduces for the first time here is a decidedly darker palette; many of these works are, if not painted black, at least have black …